POWRE: Visiting Professor at MIT: Geologic and Geodetic Constraint on Continental Deformation and Mountain Building

该POWRE奖支持麻省理工学院M. Meghan Miller博士的访问教授任命，他是中央华盛顿大学地质学教授兼主席。麻省理工学院（MIT）教授布拉德福德·海格（Bradford Hager）是本次会议的主持人。米勒将开发三个相互关联的研究项目：1)与麻省理工学院教员合作，在加州东部剪切带进行为期7年的GPS测量，得出模型结果；2)天山的地球动力学研究；3)为未来在太平洋西北部建立一个新的永久性GPS阵列的结果建模奠定基础。在第一个项目中，东加利福尼亚剪切带板块边缘变形的GPS观测，在CWU的数据简化已经成熟，结果已经为建模做好了准备。此外，麻省理工学院的工作人员在中国湖的科索温泉地区观察到一个更小、更密集的阵列，这个网络提供了区域背景。这个项目的建模和发布结果将是米勒在麻省理工学院这一年的主要关注点。在第二个项目中，CWU是NSF-EAR在中亚天山的大陆动力学项目的合作机构。Bradford Hager是这12名美国调查员提案的首席科学家。米勒是四人野外地质小组的成员之一；海格负责GPS的工作。这次访问将是推动这一多机构合作走向成熟的关键时刻。power奖将促进这种合作。最后，在太平洋西北大地测量阵的支持下，访问教授职位将为研究太平洋西北地区的变形及其驱动过程提供新的GPS测量和地球物理模拟项目。

9753190 Miller This POWRE award supports a Visiting Professor appointment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for Dr. M. Meghan Miller, Professor and Chair of Geology at Central Washington University. Bradford Hager, a Professor at MIT, is the faculty host. Miller will develop three inter-related research projects: 1) model results from seven years of GPS measurements in the Eastern California shear zone, in collaboration with MIT faculty, 2) geodynamical studies of the Tien Shan, and 3) seed future modeling of results from a new, permanent GPS array in the Pacific Northwest. In the first project, GPS observations of plate margin deformation in the Eastern California shear zone, data reduction in at CWU is mature, and the results are ready for modeling. In addition, MIT workers have observed a smaller, denser array in the Coso Hot Springs area, China Lake, for which this network provides regional context. Modeling and publishing results of this project will be a major focus of Miller's year at MIT. In the second project, CWU is partner institution on an NSF-EAR Continental Dynamics project in the Tien Shan of central Asia. Bradford Hager is the Chief Scientist on this twelve US investigator proposal. Miller is a member of the four co-investigator field geology team; Hager coordinates the GPS work. The visit will be a critical time for maturation of the collaboration on this multi-institution effort. The POWRE award will facilitate this collaboration. Finally, a visiting professorship would seed new GPS measurement and geophysical modeling projects for the study of deformation in the Pacific Northwest and the processes which drive it, under the auspices of the Pacific Northwest Geodetic Array.